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Grand Mufti of Egypt: No place for terror in Islam

Mar 17, 2015 9:53 pm By Robert Spencer

Shawki Allam2Over at Pamela Geller’s Atlas Shrugs I clear up still more obfuscations:

The articles come almost daily now: Muslim (and non-Muslim) authorities assuring us that what the Islamic State and other jihad terrorists do — mass murders, beheadings, rapes, destruction — has nothing do with Islam, despite the jihadis’ quotations of the Qur’an and screams of “Allahu akbar.” And every day, mainstream outlets such as Newsweek here are eager to publish them — eager to reassure jittery Infidels that all these dismaying dismays of hatred and violence perpetrated in the name of Islam don’t mean what they seem to mean, and that they need not pressure their political leaders to deal more realistically with the jihad threat.

And so we come to the Grand Mufti of Egypt, telling us that “There’s No Place for Terror in the Teachings of Islam”: that’s the title of this article by Shawki Allam, The Grand Mufti of Egypt, published in Newsweek on March 17, 2015.

The Grand Mufti of Egypt — so august a personage wouldn’t lie to us, would he? Let’s see.

Every Muslim is in utter shock about the senseless, appalling and cowardly attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris, and the other senseless violence against innocents we have seen since in Copenhagen and Libya.

Right out of the box — “every Muslim” is in “utter shock” over the Charlie Hebdo jihad massacre? Every one? So those 800,000 Muslims in Chechnya who demonstrated not against the murders, but against the Charlie Hebdo Muhammad cartoons, were shocked and appalled by the murders but decided to protest against the cartoons that led to the murders? And similarly shocked by the murders but not shocked enough to keep from protesting against the cartoons were the tens of thousands of Muslims who demonstrated in Pakistan, and Iran, and elsewhere? Muslims in Niger burned down 45 churches in their rage against the cartoons — were they in utter shock over the cartoonists’ murder as well?

On the other side, meanwhile, how many Muslims displayed their utter shock over the murder of the cartoonists by demonstrating against Sharia blasphemy laws and in favor of the freedom of expression? Why, none. None at all.

Not a good start for the Mufti in terms of giving us an honest presentation, but maybe he will pick up his game.

Let us say it plainly: These horrific acts are a complete violation of Islamic law and norms, and the perpetrators are in no way representative of Muslim people or the religion of Islam.

God upholds the sanctity of life as a universal principle. The Koran states in 4:29: “And do not kill one another, for God is indeed merciful unto you.” Islam views murder as both a crime punishable by law in this world and as a major sin punishable in the Afterlife. As Prophet Muhammad said, “The first cases to be decided among the people on the Day of Judgment will be those of blood-shed.”

You’ll notice that the Mufti omitted a few Qur’an verses that may be pertinent in this context, such as:

2:191-193: “And slay them wherever you come upon them, and expel them from where they expelled you; persecution is more grievous than slaying….”

4:89: “They wish that you should disbelieve as they disbelieve, and then you would be equal; therefore take not to yourselves friends of them, until they emigrate in the way of Allah; then, if they turn their backs, take them, and slay them wherever you find them; take not to yourselves any one of them as friend or helper.”

5:33: “This is the recompense of those who fight against Allah and His Messenger, and hasten about the earth, to do corruption there: they shall be slaughtered, or crucified, or their hands and feet shall alternately be struck off; or they shall be banished from the land. That is a degradation for them in this world; and in the world to come awaits them a mighty chastisement.”

8:12: “When thy Lord was revealing to the angels, ‘I am with you; so confirm the believers. I shall cast into the unbelievers’ hearts terror; so smite above the necks, and smite every finger of them!”

9:5: “Then, when the sacred months are drawn away, slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them, and confine them, and lie in wait for them at every place of ambush. But if they repent, and perform the prayer, and pay the alms, then let them go their way; Allah is All-forgiving, All-compassionate.”

9:29: “Fight those who believe not in Allah and the Last Day and do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden — such men as practise not the religion of truth, being of those who have been given the Book — until they pay the tribute out of hand and have been humbled.”

9:111: “Allah has bought from the believers their selves and their possessions against the gift of Paradise; they fight in the way of Allah; they kill, and are killed…”

47:4: “When you meet the unbelievers, smite their necks…”

The Mufti would no doubt say that none of these actually mean that Muslims should kill anyone, and that their plain meaning is not what they really mean at all. Maybe so (although if it is so, there sure are a lot of misunderstanders of Islam among Muslims), but when he presents Qur’an 4:29 as if it were a general principle in Islam, and presents Islam’s prohibition of murder as if it were a blanket condemnation of terrorism without defining either term, it is not unreasonable to ask him how he understands these verses, and what he says to Muslims who think that when they say “kill them wherever you find them” actually means “kill them wherever you find them.” But he doesn’t explain in this article.

This is in keeping as well with Muslim tradition, which rejects terror and violence. This teaching is best shown in the example of the Prophet Muhammad, whose honorable birth was recently celebrated by 1.6 billion Muslims. For Muslims, Prophet Muhammad is the beacon of mercy, the sparkle of compassion, the spring of wisdom and the perfect guide in their journey towards God.

Here is some of that mercy and compassion in stories about Muhammad from Islamic tradition: Muhammad ordered the deaths of Abu Afak, who was over one hundred years old, and the poetess Asma bint Marwan, for making fun of him. Abu Afak was killed in his sleep, in response to Muhammad’s question, “Who will avenge me on this scoundrel?” Similarly, Muhammad on another occasion cried out, “Will no one rid me of this daughter of Marwan?” One of his followers, ‘Umayr ibn Adi, went to her house that night, where he found her sleeping next to her children. The youngest, a nursing babe, was in her arms. But that didn’t stop Umayr from murdering her and the baby as well. Muhammad commended him: “You have done a great service to Allah and His Messenger, Umayr!” (Ibn Ishaq, 674-676)

Then there was Ka’b bin Al-Ashraf. Muhammad asked: “Who is willing to kill Ka’b bin Al-Ashraf who has hurt Allah and His Apostle?” One of the Muslims, Muhammad bin Maslama, answered, “O Allah’s Apostle! Would you like that I kill him?” When Muhammad said that he would, Muhammad bin Maslama said, “Then allow me to say a (false) thing (i.e. to deceive Kab).” Muhammad responded: “You may say it.” Muhammad bin Maslama duly lied to Ka’b, luring him into his trap, and murdered him. (Bukhari 5.59.369)

“A Jewess used to abuse the Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) and disparage him. A man strangled her till she died. The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) declared that no recompense was payable for her blood.” (Sunan Abu-Dawud 38.4349)

It is therefore ironic and sad that fanatics and extremists have reduced the prophetic example to a set of rituals, crooked projections and warped logic that run counter to the true essence and mission of the Prophet.

They have reduced Islam to slitting throats, burning schools and oppressing women and to killing religious minorities, terrorizing communities and violating the human rights of people in the most blatant manner possible.

Oh no, it’s much more than that. It’s also boasting of Islam’s imminent conquest of Europe and the U.S., and endless whining and claiming victimhood whenever anyone points out that all this is going on.

They ignore the Prophet’s well-documented and indisputable example.

Ask Asma bin Marwan and Ka’b bin al-Ashraf about that.

They fail to comprehend that faith is ultimately about cultivating a relationship with God, one that cannot be complete unless humans abide by the Divine attributes of mercy, compassion and kindness and treat their fellow man accordingly.

Prophet Muhammad was repeatedly subjected to terrible treatment by his enemies but he consistently disregarded these insults and instead took the path of forgiveness, mercy and compassion.

Just one time I’d like to see a Muslim authority who claims this address the stories I quoted above. But it will never happen. There is no way that anyone who is familiar with the Muslim traditions about Muhammad can honestly claim that he was a model of patience, tolerance and compassion. The Mufti is relying on his readers not knowing about those stories and others like them.

This is why he is known to Muslims as “the Mercy to all worlds.” Indeed, this example is most succinctly summarized in the Koran itself, which instructs believers as follows: “The good deed and the evil deed are not alike. Repel the evil deed with one which is better.”

He is only mercy to those who become Muslim. Those who do not, he says their lives and property are not safe from him: “I have been commanded to fight against people so long as they do not declare that there is no god but Allah, and he who professed it was guaranteed the protection of his property and life on my behalf except for the right affairs rest with Allah.” (Sahih Muslim 30)

There is reform, and there is deception. It is clear from his misleading omissions that the Mufti is engaged in the latter.

 

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  1. jihad me at hello says

    Mar 17, 2015 at 10:32 pm

    Creepy looking, two tongue garden gnome.

    What outstanding logic Muslims have. French atheist/agnostic cartoonists draw a picture of Muhammad, they torch 45 Church. Explains why they have such a disproportionate low representation amongst Nobel prize science award winners.

  2. dlbrand says

    Mar 17, 2015 at 10:48 pm

    Grand Mufti of Egypt says, “blah, blah, blah, blah, BSMSPHD.”

    And nothing more.

    Clown. None the less, a good Muslim; thus, misstating the facts of Islam when speaking to non-Muslims.

  3. Papa Whiskey says

    Mar 17, 2015 at 11:26 pm

    Be it noted that the Qur’anic verse this cleric cites, 4:29, begins with a qualifier in the form of an exhortation, and then repeats that qualifier:

    O ye who believe! Squander not your wealth among yourselves in vanity, except it be a trade by mutual consent, and kill not one another. Lo! Allah is ever Merciful unto you.

    The language of this verse makes it plain that its merciful mandate is intended for Muslims alone. As for ye who do not believe, their comportment toward you is prescribed in verse 48:29:

    Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. And those with him are hard against the disbelievers and merciful among themselves.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 18, 2015 at 12:07 am

      Excellent catch, Papa Whiskey. Clearly, this is *not* an injunction against killing Infidels, let alone “blasphemers”.

    • ECAW says

      Mar 18, 2015 at 11:55 am

      Thanks for that PW. I normally check out verses quoted by Muslims and generally find such sleight of hand, but didn’t on this occasion.

      There is enough in the scriptures and the actions of Muslims around the world today to condemn Islam but I find the clincher is their slipperiness when talking to non-Muslims. Newsweek must be either monumentally ignorant or complicit.

  4. citycat says

    Mar 17, 2015 at 11:59 pm

    He’s separating from Islam the idea of the terror that will continue till Islam rules
    Terror is a tool
    lying is a tool

  5. citycat says

    Mar 18, 2015 at 12:06 am

    No place for terror in Islam
    No
    There’s no place for terror anywhere on Earth
    do not kill your selves,
    just kill infidels

  6. gravenimage says

    Mar 18, 2015 at 12:36 am

    “Every Muslim is in utter shock about the senseless, appalling and cowardly attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris, and the other senseless violence against innocents we have seen since in Copenhagen and Libya.”
    ……………………..

    *Really*? And yet here he is, *right after that attack*, threatening Charlie Hebdo himself:

    “Egypt’s Grand Mufti Warns Charlie Hebdo Against Publishing Mohammed Cartoon”

    http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/01/13/egypt’s-grand-mufti-warns-charlie-hebdo-against-publishing-mohammed-cartoon/

    “This edition will cause a new wave of hatred in French and Western society in general and what the magazine is doing does not serve coexistence or a dialog between civilizations,” the office of Grand Mufti Shawqi Allam, one of the region’s most influential Muslim clerics, said in a statement, Reuters reported.

    “This is an unwarranted provocation against the feelings of… Muslims around the world,” the statement added…

    While the Grand Mufti called the attack on Charlie Hebdo as a “terrorist” act, he called the magazine’s decision to run the new cartoon a “racist act” that would incite more Muslim violence.
    ….

    Doesn’t sound as though he was really all that shocked—just the opposite, in fact.

    And while he says that daring to criticize Islam “does not serve coexistence or a dialog between civilizations”, notice that he does not similarly condemn those pious Muslims who would murder over such criticisms…

  7. No Fear says

    Mar 18, 2015 at 1:27 am

    If terror has no place in Islam then the imams should excise the life of Mohammed from Islam.

    • mortimer says

      Mar 18, 2015 at 9:08 am

      Mohammed is a liability to Islam. Mohammedans are more moral than Mohammed. They tend to keep him hidden because they are embarrassed to discuss him with Disbelievers.

  8. Rangerrebew says

    Mar 18, 2015 at 5:50 am

    Taqiyya!!

  9. Jim says

    Mar 18, 2015 at 8:38 am

    I think it’s time to issue a ‘fatwah’ on all muslim ‘preachers’–only let’s call it a bug squash!

  10. mortimer says

    Mar 18, 2015 at 9:06 am

    In the Western world, Islamic apologists such as the Mufti of Egypt spend most of their time explaining why Allah’s violent hate language cannot be taken seriously.
    If Muslims do not believe the words of Allah are ‘clear’ (and therefore literally true), why should we care what Allah says? He says he is ‘clear’ in the Koran, but Muslims claim Allah’s words are very obscure.
    Muslims don’t trust Allah in the Koran because they constantly REINTERPRET and rephrase his words, then tell us he is not saying what he plainly says (to kill and subjugate the Disbelievers). Even the greatest of Islamic scholars such as the Mufti of Egypt doesn’t trust Allah’s contradictions…he prefers not to accept Allah is ‘mubein’ (clear) as the Koran claims. Allah is very ‘un-mubein’.
    Does Allah mean what he says? Or is he off his meds?

  11. mortimer says

    Mar 18, 2015 at 9:13 am

    The Mufti of Egypt has implicitly excommunicated the following:

    Dr Zakir Naik was not a Muslim when he declared ‘All Muslims should be terrorists.’

    Osama Bin Laden was not a Muslim when he cast terror into the hearts of Americans on 9-11.

    Sayeed Maududi was not a Muslim when he wrote: “Islam wishes to destroy all States and Governments anywhere on the face of the earth which are opposed to the ideology and programme of Islam.” Sayeed Abdul A’la Maududi, Jihad in Islam, p.9

    Sultan Mehmet V was also not a Muslim when he signed the Universal Fatwa of 1915 sanctioning the genocide of three million of his Christian subjects.

    Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), was not a Muslim when he wrote, “the holy war is a religious duty, because of the universalism of the Muslim mission and (the obligation to) convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force.” (emphasis added)

    Tamurlane was not a Muslim when he wrote glowingly of his mass murders: ‘I had crossed the rivers Ganges and Jumna and I had sent many of the abominable infidels to hell, and had purified the land from their foul existence….Thanks to almighty Allah.”

    Hajjaj, the governor of Iraq was not a Muslim when he ordered his general Qasim to “behave in such a way that no enemy of the true faith is left in that country”.

    Mohammed’s successful general Khalid ibn Walid was not a Muslim when Mohammed sent him to destroy all the pagan temples of the neighboring tribes of Mecca. Khalid reached the Jazima tribe and asked them to say, “We are Muslims”. But they said, “We are Sabians” – whereupon Khalid slaughtered the whole tribe.

  12. TheCountess says

    Mar 18, 2015 at 12:30 pm

    At the end of the day, what actually happens is what took place and not bluster.A threat is still on the table with apprehension lurking around unforeseen corners. And each of us both knows and understands this as fact. We live in a ‘guarded’ society because of such threats right here in America. Peace through freedom of movement has been threatened. We are being threatened. And it is not just coming from outside our country, but from within. Lets make no mistake about this. Fear is being shoved at us through intimidation. And it is being pushed at us from our own President. He alone has the power to either unite us together as ONE nation, or do the opposite, which is what he has been doing for nearly two terms. He, along with many other factions in our nation have sought to divide, and destroy this country and it’s people through this kind of fear of intimidation. Our news media is a huge player, owned and controlled by our leaders. As strong a message as we can send to our leaders, our government, our fellow countrymen is to stand up and be counted and not turn and run. We are coming into a time when it will be up to a few who will not bow the knee to Baal. For an enemy is out to destroy us, this nation called America. The value system of America. The idea of America. It is up to us to become teachers to those who do not understand this concept. We were allowed something so great never before in the history of mankind. I speak for women who never had it so good as living here. Never was there a society that allowed such freedom of movement. Never. Or children, or even animals. Our value system is what is at stake. Our Constitution which is our value system. It’s foundation a basis for ‘freedom of movement’. That is what evil fears. And the evil that seeks to destroy is out to get our basic foundation. The freedom of movement we have enjoyed, endowed to us by God Himself in ‘unalienable rights’. To choose through conscience, right from wrong. That is the whole Constitution summed up in both Bill of Rights and Amendments. Nothing more, nothing less. For those who have a praying relationship with God the Father, I encourage you to continue to hold America up, for God is not through with us quite yet. And who knows, with this re-election of BIBI, maybe there will be mercy for us from God as we bless Israel through our leaders when election time comes here and O is out.

    • John Stefan Obeda says

      Mar 18, 2015 at 9:24 pm

      Yes, God have mercy on America and the UK and Australia and Europe. God bless our leaders to be faithful to their office and protect us all from our enemy.

  13. More Ham Ed says

    Mar 18, 2015 at 10:15 pm

    Taaaa-qiyya. Sorry, had to sneeze.

  14. Jerry says

    Mar 19, 2015 at 8:22 am

    I shall believe him, as soon as all the Jihadi genocidal content is permanently removed from from the Qur’an and the Hdith.

    Islam is incurable.

    It should be abolished forthwith.

  15. Prijnz \Eugen says

    Mar 19, 2015 at 1:41 pm

    Guess this “unholy” man studied at the same mosque that trained our sultan Barak Hussein, “father” Kerry, “Al Quds” Brennan and our media!

    The mess of WW II could easily have been avoided had the Allies just realized that Hitler an d Himmler had nothing to do with Naziism! Sad, but necessary to say, the cure for the worldwide ravages of islam will require a WW II approach — to UNCONDITIONAL VICTORY. But that is not in the marked deck that sultan Barak Hussein is using — he is in alliance with the islamical caliphate crusaders. The sooner the GOP realize this, the better we have a chance to save the nation and Constitution.

    • John Stefan Obeda says

      Mar 19, 2015 at 6:03 pm

      May God have mercy on America and bless especially the Democrats who very stupidly elected and voted for a man, an Islamist, whose religion they did not know and still do not know.

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